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Docs Take Deeper-Than-Expected Cut in Latest Round of Medicare Regs
Court says medical residents' stipends may escape income and FICA taxes
Annual Checklist for a Profitable Practice
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Docs Take Deeper-Than-Expected Cut in Latest Round of Medicare Regs
As Congress began taking its summer repose this week, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services staffers scrambled to assemble hundreds of pages of new regulatory proposals — a process that culminated late Tuesday in the release of proposed major payment revisions for physician, hospital outpatient, imaging, specialty hospital and ambulatory surgery center services. Among the surprises: a proposal for quality measures for hospital outpatient care that would lessen payment increases next year if data on quality isn’t reported.
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Court says medical residents' stipends may escape income and FICA taxes
A district court has held that there is no “per se” statutory rule that as a matter of law automatically prevents stipends paid by a hospital to medical residents from qualifying for the scholarship exclusion from income or the FICA student exclusion. However, the court also went on to say that whether these exclusions applies depends on the particular facts and circumstances in each individual case.
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Annual Checklist for a Profitable Practice
A successful medical practice no longer happens by chance. Profitable operations require planning, analysis, forethought, and a defined direction.
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